Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology

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Page 205The Middle Eastern Neolithic moved eastward with the same deliberate speed. It
reached Afghanistan and Pakistan by about 5000 b.p. and the Indus Valley in
India by 4500 b.p. (Vishnu-Mittre 1975). Beyond this point, however, the role of ...

Page 206Since the pig is the only major animal domesticant that cannot be milked, the
fundamentally opposed attitudes toward the consumption of animal milk in the Middle East and China also appear to confirm the separate origins of the
Chinese and ...

Page 216The strength of the Middle Eastern Neolithic consisted in the mutual
reinforcement provided by the domestication of both plants and animals.
Sedentary village life increased the productivity of plant domesticants, which
increased the ...